Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, May 21

As part of the 15-day campaign of ‘corona mukt pind’ launched by the Punjab Government, 14 teams of the Health Department in collaboration with the Rural Development and Panchayat Department and Punjab Police have started collecting samples on Friday. On the first day, these teams covered 26,473 people of different villages, out of which 598 persons with Covid symptoms were sampled and 11 tested positive.

The villages covered on the first day of the campaign include Kokalpur, Badshahpur, Bhawanipur, Nurowal, Sujokalia, Thatta, Tibba, Akbarpur, Narangpur, Kala Sanghian, Nurpur Dona, Jalowal and Kesarpur.

The purpose of this campaign is to test every person with symptoms of Covid, contact tracing of those concerned and make them aware of the adherence to the prescribed medical protocols for the prevention of Covid.

Deputy Commissioner Deepti Uppal said under the 15-day campaign all the villages of the district would be covered so that this pandemic would not be spread in the villages. She said all the medical officers, SDMs, officers of the Rural Development Department have been directed to make direct contact with all the sarpanches and panches to ensure testing at common places.

Uppal said Asha workers, health personnel would visit every house to check the health of suspected patients of Covid and the information would reach the concerned medical officer who would take necessary action.

Teams will also inform the public about the proper management of bio-medical waste as it carries the highest risk of spreading the virus.

It may be mentioned that 3.49 lakh tests have been conducted in the district till Thursday. The number of daily sampling is over 3,000.